Ship breaking

Boston Tea Party On the evening of December 16th, 1773, Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in the Boston Harbor. Later that night they would dump over 300 chests of tea into the water beneath them. Their goal was to protest the tax on tea, “No taxation without representation.” This major historic event is thought to have caused the American Revolution which started in 1775. The Boston Tea Party was important because it was the first major act of defiance by American colonists.…

Slaves were stacked on top of each other during the packing process. Taken from their homes and family’s straight into the bondage of enslavement, slaves were whipped and beaten until they complied. One slave ship physician, Dr. Thomas Trotter, described the slaves as “locked ‘spoonways’ and locked to one another” (Document C). Slaves were chained together in the hold to prevent possible rebellions against their white abductors. It was very uncomfortable for the slaves in the tween decks, for…

making strict laws that make gun owners to be afraid of the harsh punishments in order to lower the rate of crime, but after the gun control law is set, the crime rate do not go down, plus, people that wants to become a crime does not mind about breaking the laws. For example, On October 1, 2017, there is a mass shooting in Las Vegas, it is remarkable because it shows how people planning on a mass murder does not care about any of those laws, this shows that gun control law is not going to be…

Marcus Rediker’s book The Slave Ship: A Human History has challenged the common idea that the true horrors of slavery happened after slavers sold the enslaved to various countries. He exposed the horrors of the middle voyage, specifically the long trek across the Atlantic, that is normally skipped over. Reviewing this perilous passage has allowed readers to learn and develop a better understanding of the diversity of cultures and the people that intertwined during the slave trade. It also sheds…

He jumped at the Giant’s face . . . and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. . . . As the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed into the eye, climbed right in, burrowed in and in. The Giant fell over backward” (64). The book Ender's Game shows that breaking the rules isn’t always a bad thing and sometimes you have to break the rules to succeed. This quote is a breakthrough for Ender…

merchandise; their hard, repressive, lives had just begun. Slaves were captured and brought into the southern colonies directly from Africa. Nearly all of the ships that brought slaves from Africa were owned by British merchants. Similarly, indentured servants were also brought to the Southern colonies on British merchant ships.…

Kamikaze means divine wind. This divine wind was first called on in the 13th century as many Mongol ships were very close to invade the unprepared and undermanned Japan. However, the Mongol’s plans were thwarted when a big wind out of nowhere rose up and destroyed all of the Mongol’s ships saving Japan from almost certain defeat. (Fahey) Kamikaze was later called on again in the 20th century to try and save Japan from the Allies who were going to invade in World War 2. However, this time the…

including Britain and provided them with military weapons and other supplies through passenger ships. However, Germany had begun to use submarines also called U-boats to sink these merchant ships everyone on board. America currently stood behind the position of armed neutrality. Germany, on the other hand, didn’t accept armed neutrality and viewed it any guarded ship as against the law. As a result, any ship they would discover…

*In another scene of the movie, the managing director, Bruce Ismay, wanted the ship to go as fast as possible; in trying to convince Edward Smith, the captain, to use all of the boilers he told the captain that he should “...retire with a bang (Bruce Ismay Titanic).” Edward reluctantly gave orders to use the last four boilers as well…

Victor and Captain Keeney, both had to make sacrifices in their own ways, for example Captain Keeney made the sacrifices of losing his wife’s trust by putting his motives before her and not turning the boat around until he gets a full ship when he clearly told her he would. While Victor’s sacrifices is that he lost everyone that was close to him by creating a monster that he should have killed right away because he knows that it is a monster himself, but he was so surprised that he brought…